Improved clothes-pin



ravine w. sri-ARLES, or TIFFIN, oHIo.

l Letters Patent No. 104,654, date/l June 21,1870.

VThe Scheiule rfeierie.l to in these Letters Patent and making par: oy tne sme.

y l v Beit known that LIBVDIG W. SEARLS, of Tin, y in the countyof Seneca, and in thestate of Ohio,

have invented certain new and' useful Improvements `in` Clothes-Pin; and` do hereby declareA that the followi ing isa full, clear, andfexaet tleseriptionthereof, reference being had to 'the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference mai-kerl thereon, i'naking a' partei' thisspeciication.

AThe `nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of afclothes-pin, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In `order to enable4 others 'skilletl in the art to which my invention apprtains to make and .usey the same, I will now proceed to describe itsoonstruction and operation, referringto the annexed drawing, which represents a perspective View of my clothes-pin.

My clothes-pin. is made of white metal, in two pieces, hinged together in the "middle, the upper part forming two arms or levers A A, which are held apart by l. springs B B.

`Thelower -part is provided with anopening, as

shown, vand jaws C C, whieh'aremade long enough to clasp two garments together;

The `opening through 0r above the jaws C C is made .suiciently large so as not to claspl the lline at all, butclasp the clothes just below the line.

Pressing the levers A A together will throw the 4jaws' 0 C apart, so as to passf over the line'ancl grasp or clasp the clothes.

a Having thus fully described-any invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure hy Letters Patent, is

`As a new article of manufacture, the within-de.

scribed -olothes-pin, Aconsisting of the curved. arms A A,Vpivotednear the center, and with the springs B B vabove the pivot, and provided with the elongateclbars -G C, Vone on each jaw, all as shown andv sertforth.

1n testimony that I claim thc foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of May, 1870.

' IRVING .W. SEABLES. Witnessesz' ANsoN G. BARBER, M. FROST. 

